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17 <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
20 <orgname>The &os; Project</orgname>
23 <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
25 <!-- Last rev: 288943 -->
29 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation
33 <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
43 <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain
44 a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the
45 &release.branch; development line. This document lists
46 applicable security advisories that were issued since the last
47 release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and
48 userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also
53 <sect1 xml:id="intro">
54 <title>Introduction</title>
56 <para>This document contains the release notes for &os;
57 &release.current;. It describes recently added, changed, or
58 deleted features of &os;. It also provides some notes on
59 upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para>
61 <para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to
62 which these release notes apply represents the latest point
63 along the &release.branch; development branch since
64 &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built,
65 binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be
67 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
69 <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to
70 which these release notes apply represents a point along the
71 &release.branch; development branch between &release.prev; and
72 the future &release.next;. Information regarding pre-built,
73 binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be
75 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
77 <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os;
78 &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be
79 found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or
80 any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or
81 other) &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the
83 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
84 &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link
85 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os;
86 Handbook</link>.</para>
88 <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata
89 before installing &os;. The errata document is updated with
90 <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the
91 release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains
92 information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections
93 to documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os;
94 &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para>
96 <para>This document describes the most user-visible new or changed
97 features in &os; since &release.prev;. In general, changes
98 described here are unique to the &release.branch; branch unless
99 specifically marked as &merged; features.</para>
101 <para>Typical release note items document recent security
102 advisories issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware
103 support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or
104 contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to
105 major ports/packages or release engineering practices. Clearly
106 the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os;
107 between releases; this document focuses primarily on security
108 advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural
112 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
113 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title>
115 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions
116 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported
117 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade
118 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as
119 unmodified GENERIC kernels distributed as a part of an official
120 &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that
121 the host being upgraded have Internet connectivity.</para>
123 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
124 base system from source code) from previous versions are
125 supported, according to the instructions in
126 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
129 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after backing up
130 <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration files.</para>
134 <sect1 xml:id="security-errata">
135 <title>Security and Errata</title>
137 <para>This section lists the various Security Advisories and
138 Errata Notices since &release.prev;.</para>
140 <sect2 xml:id="security">
141 <title>Security Advisories</title>
146 <sect2 xml:id="errata">
147 <title>Errata Notices</title>
153 <sect1 xml:id="userland">
154 <title>Userland</title>
156 <para>This section covers changes and additions to userland
157 applications, contributed software, and system utilities.</para>
159 <sect2 xml:id="userland-config">
160 <title>Userland Configuration Changes</title>
165 <sect2 xml:id="userland-programs">
166 <title>Userland Application Changes</title>
168 <para revision="321092">The &man.ln.1; utility has been updated
169 to correct the behavior of the <literal>-F</literal> flag by
170 unlinking an existing directory before creating a symbolic
173 <para revision="321241">The &man.crontab.1; utility has been
174 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-f</literal>, which
175 forces &man.crontab.5; removal when <literal>-r</literal> is
176 used non-interactively.</para>
178 <para revision="321262">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been
179 updated to support <acronym>RFC</acronym>5424-compliant
180 messages when rotating system logs.</para>
182 <para revision="321287" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&gandi;">The
183 &man.sesutil.8; utility has been updated to include
184 &man.libxo.3; support in output.</para>
186 <para revision="321927">The &man.diskinfo.8; utility has been
187 updated to include two new flags, <literal>-s</literal> which
188 displays the disk identity (usually the serial number), and
189 <literal>-p</literal> which displays the physical path to the
190 disk in a storage controller. The <literal>-s</literal> and
191 <literal>-p</literal> flags are mutually exclusive, and cannot
192 be used with any other flags.</para>
194 <para revision="321929">The &man.diskinfo.8; utility has also
195 been updated to include device model when the
196 <literal>-s</literal> flag is used.</para>
198 <para revision="322525">The &man.bsdgrep.1; utility has been
199 updated to include a <literal>rgrep</literal> hard link to
200 &man.grep.1;, which when used is equivalent to
201 <literal>grep -r</literal>.</para>
203 <para revision="322910">The &man.umount.8; utility has been
204 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-N</literal>, which
205 is used to forcefully unmount an <acronym>NFS</acronym>
206 mounted filesystem.</para>
208 <para revision="322919">The &man.pw.8; utility has been updated
209 to properly handle empty secondary group lists as an argument
210 to the <literal>-G</literal> flag when using the
211 <literal>usermod</literal> subcommand.</para>
213 <para revision="324124" contrib="sponsor"
214 sponsor="&chelsio;">The &man.getconf.1; utility has been
215 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which
216 prints the name and value of all system or path configuration
217 values to &man.stdout.4; or optionally a file as an argument
218 to <literal>-a</literal>.</para>
220 <para revision="324270">The &man.ps.1; utility has been updated
221 to reflect realtime and idle priorities in state flags.</para>
223 <para revision="324271">The &man.ps.1; utility has been updated
224 to display if a process is running with &man.capsicum.4;
225 capability mode, indicated by <literal>C</literal>.</para>
227 <para revision="324380">The &man.cpucontrol.8; utility has been
228 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-n</literal>, that
229 disables the default microcode update search path when
232 <para revision="324674">The &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility has been
233 updated to prevent a filesystem from being reported as
234 modified when only the timestamp in the superblock is
237 <para revision="325003" contrib="sponsor"
238 sponsor="&spectralogic;">The &man.diskinfo.8; utility has been
239 updated to display disk rotation rate and if
240 <acronym>TRIM</acronym>/<acronym>UNMAP</acronym> is supported
243 <para revision="325473">The &man.rsh.1; utility has been updated
244 to include a new flag, <literal>-N</literal>, which disables
245 shutdown of a socket sending path when used.</para>
247 <para revision="326413">The &man.pfctl.8; utility has been
248 updated to allow <literal>route-to</literal> to properly
249 handle network interfaces with multiple <acronym>IP</acronym>
252 <para revision="326778" contrib="sponsor"
253 sponsor="&spectralogic;">The &man.camcontrol.8; utility has
254 been updated to include <acronym>ZAC</acronym> (Zoned-device
255 <acronym>ATA</acronym> command set) information when the
256 <literal>identify</literal> subcommand is used.</para>
258 <para revision="326848">The &man.pw.8; utility has been updated
259 to correct handling of account expiration periods.</para>
261 <para revision="327592">The &man.mdmfs.8; utility has been
262 updated to support &man.tmpfs.5;.</para>
264 <para revision="327871">The &man.cpucontrol.8; utility has been
265 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-e</literal>, which is
266 used to re-evaluate reported <acronym>CPU</acronym> features
267 after applying firmware updates.</para>
270 <para>The &man.cpucontrol.8; <literal>-e</literal> flag should
271 only be used after microcode update have been applied to all
272 <acronym>CPU</acronym>s in the system, otherwise system
273 instability may be experienced if processor features are not
274 identical across the system.</para>
277 <para revision="328139">The &man.du.1; utility has been updated
278 to include the <literal>--si</literal> long option, which is
279 used to display output in "human-readable" output in
280 powers of 1000.</para>
282 <para revision="328140">The &man.df.1; utility has been updated
283 to include the <literal>--si</literal> long option, which is
284 an alias to <literal>-H</literal>.</para>
286 <para revision="328599">The &man.service.8; utility has been
287 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-j</literal>, which is
288 used to interact with services running within a &man.jail.8;.
289 The argument to <literal>-j</literal> can be either the name
290 or numeric jail <acronym>ID</acronym>.</para>
292 <para revision="328604" contrib="sponsor"
293 sponsor="&dellemc;">The &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility has been
294 updated to exit with a non-zero status when the filesystem is
297 <para revision="328668">The &man.nvmecontrol.8; utility has been
298 updated to print the full 128 bit value for
299 <acronym>SMART</acronym> data, instead of the hexadecimal
302 <para revision="328716">The &man.nvmecontrol.8; utility has been
303 updated to include control options for Western Digital®
304 HGST drives. The new options are <literal>cap-diag</literal>,
305 <literal>get-crash-dump</literal>,
306 <literal>drive-log</literal>, <literal>purge</literal>, and
307 <literal>purge-monitor</literal>.</para>
309 <para revision="330692" contrib="sponsor"
310 sponsor="&dellemc;">The &man.dhclient.8; utility has been
311 updated to be more compliant with <acronym>RFC</acronym>2131
312 by setting the source address field in the
313 <acronym>IP</acronym> header to <literal>0</literal> when
314 sending a <literal>DHCPREQUEST</literal> message to attempt to
315 obtain a previously-assigned <literal>IP</literal>
318 <para revision="330694" contrib="sponsor"
319 sponsor="&dellemc;">The &man.pw.8; utility has been updated to
320 allow the <literal>@</literal> and <literal>!</literal>
321 characters in the <acronym>GECOS</acronym> field.</para>
323 <para revision="331471">The &man.ps.1; utility has been updated
324 to include a <literal>jail</literal> keyword, which when used
325 will list the name of a &man.jail.8; instead of the numeric
328 <para revision="331586" contrib="sponsor"
329 sponsor="&mellanox;">The &man.mlx5tool.8; utility has been
330 added, which is used to manage Connect-X 4 and
331 Connect-X 5 devices supported by &man.mlx5io.4;.</para>
333 <para revision="331603" contrib="sponsor"
334 sponsor="&chelsio;">The &man.sysctl.8; utility has been
335 updated to support setting an array of values to nodes. Prior
336 to this change, &man.sysctl.8; could only set one value to
337 a node that may return multiple values when queried.</para>
339 <para revision="331729">The &man.ifconfig.8; utility has been
340 updated to include a <literal>random</literal> option, which
341 when used with the <literal>ether</literal> option, generates
342 a random <acronym>MAC</acronym> address for an
345 <para revision="332126" contrib="sponsor"
346 sponsor="&netflix;">The &man.efibootmgr.8; utility has been
347 added, which is used to manipulate the <acronym>EFI</acronym>
351 <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib">
352 <title>Contributed Software</title>
354 <para revision="321303">The &man.libarchive.3; library has been
355 updated to version 3.3.2.</para>
357 <para revision="322172">The &man.libxo.3; library has been
358 updated to version 0.8.4.</para>
360 <para revision="322442"><application>Subversion</application>
361 has been updated to version 1.9.7.</para>
363 <para revision="328495">The &man.dtc.1; utility has been updated
364 to upstream commit 9ce35ff8.</para>
366 <para revision="328874">The &man.file.1; utility has been
367 updated to version 5.32.</para>
369 <para revision="323136"><application>OpenSSH</application> has
370 been updated to version 7.5p1.</para>
372 <para revision="324581">The &man.mandoc.1; utility has been
373 updated to version 1.14.3.</para>
375 <para revision="327234">The &man.tcpdump.1; utility has been
376 updated to version 4.9.2.</para>
378 <para revision="330106">The <acronym>NTP</acronym> utilities
379 have been updated to version 4.2.8p11.</para>
381 <para revision="330570">The &man.less.1; utility has been
382 updated to upstream version v530.</para>
384 <para revision="331246">The <application>bmake</application>
385 utility has been updated to upstream version 20180222.</para>
387 <para revision="331465">The <acronym>BSD</acronym>-licensed
388 &man.diff.1; utility has been imported from OpenBSD, which is
389 installed if <literal>WITHOUT_GNU_DIFF</literal> is set in
390 &man.src.conf.5;, and otherwise not installed by
393 <para revision="331638"><application>OpenSSL</application> has
394 been updated to version 1.0.2o.</para>
396 <para revision="331662">Timezone data files have been updated to
397 version 2018d.</para>
399 <para revision="331838">The <application>clang</application>,
400 <application>llvm</application>,
401 <application>lld</application>,
402 <application>lldb</application>, and
403 <literal>compiler-rt</literal> utilities as well as
404 <literal>libc++</literal> have been updated to upstream
405 version 6.0.0.</para>
408 <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer">
409 <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title>
411 <para revision="322254" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;"
412 arch="&arch.arm64;">The &man.bsdinstall.8; installer has been
413 updated to default to <acronym>UEFI</acronym>-only
417 <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc">
418 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename>
424 <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic">
425 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename>
431 <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries">
432 <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title>
437 <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi">
438 <title>ABI Compatibility</title>
443 <sect2 xml:id="userland-debug">
444 <title>Userland Debugging</title>
450 <sect1 xml:id="kernel">
451 <title>Kernel</title>
453 <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system
454 tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise
457 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-general">
458 <title>General Kernel Changes</title>
463 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix">
464 <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title>
469 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config">
470 <title>Kernel Configuration</title>
475 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-modules">
476 <title>Kernel Modules</title>
481 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl">
482 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title>
488 <sect1 xml:id="drivers">
489 <title>Devices and Drivers</title>
491 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and
492 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para>
494 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device">
495 <title>Device Drivers</title>
497 <para revision="331586" contrib="sponsor"
498 sponsor="&mellanox;">The &man.mlx5io.4; driver has been added,
499 providing an interface to manage supported Connect-X 4
500 and Connect-X 5 network adapters.</para>
502 <para revision="330307" contrib="sponsor"
503 sponsor="&chelsio;">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been updated
504 to firmware version 1.16.63.0 for T4, T5, and T6 network
508 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage">
509 <title>Storage Drivers</title>
514 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network">
515 <title>Network Drivers</title>
521 <sect1 xml:id="hardware">
522 <title>Hardware Support</title>
524 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical
525 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well
526 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in
527 other sections of this document.</para>
529 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support">
530 <title>Hardware Support</title>
532 <para revision="331500">Support for the TAIO
533 <acronym>USB</acronym> multi-protocol adapter
534 (<acronym>TUMPA</acronym>) has been added.</para>
537 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization">
538 <title>Virtualization Support</title>
540 <para revision="321413">Support for &man.virtio.console.4; has
541 been added to &man.bhyve.4;.</para>
544 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm">
545 <title>ARM Support</title>
551 <sect1 xml:id="storage">
552 <title>Storage</title>
554 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems
555 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para>
557 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general">
558 <title>General Storage</title>
563 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net">
564 <title>Networked Storage</title>
569 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs">
575 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom">
576 <title><literal>geom(4)</literal></title>
582 <sect1 xml:id="boot">
583 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
585 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other
586 boot-related changes.</para>
588 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader">
589 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
591 <para revision="329114">The length of <acronym>GELI</acronym>
592 passphrases entered when booting a system with encrypted disks
593 is now hidden by default. See the configuration options in
594 &man.geli.8; to restore the previous behavior.</para>
597 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu">
598 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title>
604 <sect1 xml:id="network">
605 <title>Networking</title>
607 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in
610 <sect2 xml:id="network-general">
611 <title>General Network Changes</title>
616 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols">
617 <title>Network Protocols</title>
623 <sect1 xml:id="ports">
624 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title>
626 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports
627 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and
628 installation tools.</para>
630 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure">
631 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title>
636 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages ">
637 <title>Packaging Changes</title>
644 <title>Documentation</title>
646 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation
647 Project sources and toolchain.</para>
649 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources">
650 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title>
655 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain">
656 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title>
662 <sect1 xml:id="releng">
663 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
665 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the
666 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para>
668 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes">
669 <title>Integration Changes</title>
671 <para revision="326892">Amazon® EC2™ instances now
672 keep their clocks synchronized using the Amazon Time Sync
673 Service, the <acronym>NTP</acronym> service internal to the
674 EC2™ infrastructure.</para>